Artist Biographies

Originally from Maritime Canada, where he was educated at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Eric Walker, now based in Ottawa, is a Métis Acadien and member of the Eastern Woodland Métis Nation. His constructed image work focuses...

Robert Waters was born in 1974 in London, Canada. He graduated from York University with a BFA. Waters moved from Toronto to Mexico City in 2007 to focus on his art practice. He has exhibited his works throughout Canada and internationally...

I was born in Transylvania, Romania in a place called Zovany in Hungarian and Zauan in Romanian. This place "belonged" to another town called Ip in Romanian and Ipp in Hungarian, which is officially the name of my birthplace. My family...

BENJAMIN ANTHONY GOODWIN WELLAND was born near Morewood, Ontario. His parents raised him on a country farm; complete with barns and fields, though neither of them were farmers. It was the aesthetic of rural settings that drew his family to...

• The Crocodile Can’t See The Bear Coming, 2014
This is a story as old as time. Animals all have different times to come to the water for a drink. In this case, there may be a conflict. The rocks around the water are shielding the bear...

Rhonda Weppler has a BA in Psychology from the University of Toronto and an MFA from the University of British Colombia. In 1999, she was an artist-in-residence at the Banff Centre for the Arts, and since then she has had solo shows at The...

Janet Werner was born in Winnipeg and recently moved to Montreal from Saskatoon. She received her BFA from the Maryland Institute (Baltimore) in 1985 and her MFA from Yale University in 1987. Werner's paintings and installations have been...

Joyce Westrop is a contemporary artist using social critique as a starting point within a broader aesthetic of materials and process. Joyce is currently at Enriched Bread Artist Studios employing drawing, printmaking and sculpture in her...